Multiple double shade roller mounting



2 Sheets-Sheet 1 W 5 7 5N m w 7 in Q MN W9 A 9 n r 9 0 D1 r e r I mm e0 IQ Ils A my ,\\M \h Z E Y March 31, 1959' E. F. PIDGEON ET AL MULTIPLE DOUBLE SHADE ROLLER MOUNTING Filed Feb. 29, 1956 March 31, 1959 E. F. PIDGEON ET AL 2,379,965 MULTIPLE DOUBLE SHADE ROLLER MOUNTING I 2 Sheets- Sheet 2 Filed Feb. 29, 1956 m l w l a r W\ Fan -"N169 4 P. a r hw mmww v 1} $5 WW a 3 a W NE N R IWIE Uited states Patent MULTIPLE DOUBLE SHADE ROLLER MOUNTING Elmer F. Pidgeon and Lawrence'V. Carr, Spiceland, Ind.,

assignors to Luther 0. Draper Shade Company, Spiceland, luck, a partnership Application February 29, 1956, Serial No. 568,539

Claims. (Cl. 248F269) This invention relates to improvements in the mounting of window shades and more specifically to a novel unit for mounting a plurality of double shades and the rollers thereof in overlapping relation to one another for shading portions of an opening disposed both above and beneath the shade mounting.

The present invention constitutes a continuation in part of our prior co-pending application, Serial No. 352,432, Multiple Shade Roller Mounting for Unusually Wide Windows, filed May 1, 1953, now abandoned.

Among the primary objects of the present invention are to provide a multiple double window shade mounting for use in a wall opening too wide to be covered by a single shade and requiring a double shade type mounting, wherein the shades may be drawn or extended both upwardly and downwardly and which is so constructed that the mounting brackets of the lower shades are disposed in the same horizontal plane and the mounting brackets of the upper shades are likewise disposed horizontally coplanar.

More particularly, it is an aim of the present invention to provide a novel multiple double shade roller mounting composed of a plurality of individual double shade roller mounting brackets secured to one another in overlapping back-to-back relation to provide a novel support for a plurality of sets of double shades utilized for covering a single window opening.

Still a further object of the invention is to provide novel means for supporting such a unit in a window opening.

A further object of the invention is to provide a multiple shade roller mounting unit capable of being readily adjusted to compensate for variations in the widths of window openings stemming from construction tolerances.

Various other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter become more fully apparent from the following description of the drawings, illustrating a presently preferred embodiment thereof, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of the multiple double shade roller mounting shown in an applied position;

Figure 2 is a top plan view, partly in longitudinal section thereof, taken substantially along a plane as indicated by the line 22 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is an enlarged fragmentary longitudinal sectional view, taken substantially along a plane as indicated by the line 3-3 of Figure 1;

Figure 4 is an end elevational view of the mounting, looking from left to right of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is an enlarged cross sectional view, taken substantially along a plane as indicated by the line 55 of Figure 2;

Figure 6 is a perspective view of a portion of the mounting;

Figure 7 is a vertical sectional view, taken substantially along a plane as indicated by the line 7-7 of Figure 4, and

Figure 8 is an enlarged detailed horizontal sectional 2,879,965 Patented Mar. 31, 1959 gated bar 14 which is made extensible by being formed of an intermediate section 15 and complementary end sections 16.

The intermediate section 15 has turned back longitudinal edges forming opposed grooves or channels 17 in which the longitudinal edges of the end sections 16 are slidably received for slidably and extensibly connecting said end sections to the intermediate section.

The end sections 16, at their remote ends, are provided with outturned portions forming shade roller mounting members 18 each of which is provided with an upper shade roller shaft engaging portion and a lower shade roller shaft engaging portion. As seen in Figure 4, the upper shade roller shaft engaging portion 19 of the left hand member 18 of the bracket 11 constitutes a circular opening for journaling a roller shaft end and the lower portion 20 of said member 18 constitutes a slot for holding the other roller shaft end. It will be understood that the other right hand member 18 of the bracket 11 has the opening 19 at the bottom thereof and the slot 20 at the top, and that this same arrangement prevails in connection with the double shade roller mounting brackets 12 and 13.

As best illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, the inner or right hand bar section 16 of the bracket 11 overlaps the adjacent, left hand bar section 16 of the intermediate bracket 13 and said bar sections are disposed in backto-back relation and are secured to one another by suitable fastenings, such as the rivets 21.

The inner or left hand bar section 16 of the bracket 12 overlies and is disposed in back-to-back relation to the other right hand end of the bar of the intermediate bracket 13 and could be secured permanently thereto by fastenings such as rivets. However, in order to make the mounting 10 extensibly adjustable to compensate for variations in window opening widths, the right hand bracket 12 is detachably connected to the right hand end of the intermediate bracket 13, as best illustrated in Figures 5 and 8. This is accomplished by a lower upwardly opening hook member 22 which is supported by the left hand bar section 16 of the bracket 12 and which extends inwardly from the bottom edge thereof to engage around the bottom edge of a portion of the bar 14 of the bracket 13. The bracket 12 is provided with an upper hook 23 dizposed above and in opposed relation to the book 22 for engaging over the upper edge of the bar 14 of the bracket 13. The hooks 22 and 23 may be of identical construction. However, whereas the book 22 is permanently mounted, the hook 23 is detachably mounted by a screw 24 which is threaded inwardly therethrough and through a part of the bracket 12 and which, when tightened, bears against a part of the bar of the bracket 13 for clamping said bar portion between the screw 14 and the downwardly extending bill portion 23a of the hook 23. Thus, the extent that the end bracket 12 overlaps the right hand end of the intermediate bracket 13 may be adjusted to vary the over-all length of the mounting 10 and by the simple expedient of tightening the screw 24, the mounting 10 may be-re-. tained in this desired adjustment. It will be understood that the adjacent overlapping ends of the brackets 12 and 13 are also disposed in back-to-back relation. It will also be understood that, if desired, the left hand end bracket 11 could be adjustably secured to the intermediate bracket 13 in the same manner as the brackets 12 and 13 are secured together.

Attaching plates are secured to the outer sides of the members 18 of the intermediate bracket 13 and are each provided with a pair of spaced barrels or sleeves 26, as best seen in Figures 4 and 6. The barrels or sleeves 26 are disposed substantially in alignment with the bar 14 of the bracket 13. Likewise, the members 18 at the remote ends of the brackets 11 and 12 have mounting plates 25 secured to the outer sides thereof and the barrels 26 thereof are likewise disposed substantially in alignment with the bars 14 of said brackets 11 and 12. The spaced barrels 26 of each plate 25 are adapted to align with a barrel 27 of a supporting arm 28, which barrel 27 interfits between the barrels 26 in the same manner as a hinge. The aligned barrels 26 and 27, as seen in Figures 4 and 6, are connected by a pin 29 which extends downwardly therethrough and which has a head 30 at its upper end for supporting the pin in engagement with the barrels. Each arm 28 has an angular flange 31 at its other end, as best seen in Figure 7, which is provided with a plurality of elongated fastening receiving openings 31a.

To illustrate a preferred application and use of the mounting 10, a large opening 32 is shown formed in a wall 33 of a building. The opening 32 may be closed by an upper translucent light admitting portion 34 which may be formed of glass brick, and a lower light admitting portion 35 in the form of a transparent window, which may be composed of a number of sashes. The light admitting upper and lower portions 34 and 35, respectively, are separated by a transom bar 36 which extends the width of the window opening 32 and against the inner side of which the flanges 31 are adapted to bear and to be adjustably secured by fastenings 37 which extend through the openings 31a thereof and are anchored in the transom bar 36. Said fastenings 37 are tightened for adjustably clamping the flanges 31 against the bar 36. In this manner the multiple double shade roller mounting 10 is supported in the wall opening 32 on the inner side of the transom bar 36 and the light admitting portions 34 and 35, which are located above and beneath said bar. The two end supporting arms 28, which support the remote ends of the brackets 11 and 12, are secured to the transom bar 36 adjacent the ends thereof, so that the remote ends of the brackets 11 and 12 are located in close proximity to the side edges of the wall opening 32. It will be readily apparent that the four supporting arms 28 provide a very stable support for the mounting 10. However, it will also be apparent that the mounting 10 could be supported by a lesser number of supporting arms 28. For example, the mounting 10 could be supported solely by the two intermediate supporting arms 28 which support the intermediate bracket 13 or solely by the two end supporting arms 28.

An upper shade roller 38 and a lower shade roller 39 are supported one above the other by the two shade roller supporting members 18 of each of the brackets 11, 12 and 13, and each upper roller 38 supports a window shade 40 and each lower roller 39 supports a window shade 41. The rollers and window shades are shown in broken lines in Figure l, inasmuch as said rollers and the shades are of conventional construction and are mounted in a conventional manner with respect to the bracket individual thereto. As is conventional, the window shades 40 and 41 extend from the rollers 38 and 39, respectively, between said rollers and the bars 14 of the brackets thereof. As is conventional, each of the window shades 40 and 41 is provided with a pull cord 42. The pull cords 42 of the upper shades 40 extend upwardly and over rollers in a conventional manner, for example as shown-in my prior Patent No. 2,224,796, entitled Window Shade Shield and Bracket, which issued on December 10, 1940. The

pull cords 42 of the lower shades 41 merely depend downwardly.

From the foregoing it will be readily apparent that due to the unique construction of the mounting 10, when the shades 40 and 41 are drawn or extended upwardly and downwardly, respectively, the adjacent edges of the shades 40 and 41, which are supported by the two end brackets 11 and 12, will overlie the side edges of the shades 40 and 41, respectively, which are supported by the intermediate bracket 13. Thus, the shades in combination with the mounting 10, which additionally functions as a light shield, will effectively exclude light rays from passing through the wall opening 32 when the shades are fully drawn. 7

The upper shade roller shaft engaging portions of all of the members 18 of the brackets 11, 12 and 13 are disposed in the same horizontal plane, as are also all of the lower shade roller shaft engaging portions of said members 18, so that the three upper rollers 38 are disposed in the same horizontal plane as are also the three lower rollers 39. This disposition of the rollers constitutes a unique feature of this invention made possible by the back-to-back connection of the overlapping ends of the brackets 11, 12 and 13 and which is considered unique in the art.

It will be readily apparent that the mounting 10, aside from its supporting arms 28, may be readily removed from the wall opening 32, by merely removing the four connecting pins 29. It will also be understood that the mounting could include only two brackets for a window opening of a lesser width or could include more than three brackets for exceptionally wide openings.

Various modifications and changes are contemplated and may obviously be resorted to, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter defined by the appended claims.

We claim as our invention:

1. A multiple double shade roller mounting comprising three double shade roller mounting brackets each including an elongated bar, each bar having shade roller mounting members at the ends thereof projecting outwardly from one side of the bar and adapted to support therebetween an upper and a lower shade roller, said brackets including end brackets and an intermediate bracket, said bars of the end brackets having adjacent end portions disposed in overlapping back-to-back relation to the end portions of the bar of the intermediate bracket, and means for connecting the overlapping portions of said bars together whereby adjacent ends of the rollers of the end brackets will be disposed in overlapping relation to the ends of the rollers of the intermediate bracket, the shade roller mounting members of the intermediate bracket extending from the bars in the opposite direction relative to the shade roller mounting members of the end brackets.

2. A multiple double shade roller mounting as in claim 1, supporting arms adapted to be secured to a transom bar of a wall opening, and means detachably connecting certain of said shade roller mounting members to said supporting arms for supporting the multiple shade roller mounting with the bracket bars thereof in spaced apart substantially parallel relation to the transom bar and with certain of the shade roller mounting members extending from the bracket bars toward the transom bar and other of the shade roller mounting members extending away from the transom bar.

3. A multiple double shade roller mounting as in claim 1, said means including a clamping unit detachably clamping the bracket bars in selected overlapping relation for varying the over-all length of the mounting.

4. A multiple double shade roller mounting as in claim 1, each of said bracket bars being formed of extensible sections for varying the over-all length of the mounting for accommodating shade rollers of different lengths.

5. A multiple double shade roller mounting comprising 5 four supporting members adapted to be secured to and extending outwardly from a support and disposed in spaced apart relation to one another, said supporting members including end supporting members and intermediate supporting members, a bar portion carried by each intermediate supporting member, a double shade roller mounting member fired to and extending outwardly from each end supporting member, a double shade roller mounting member fixed to and extending outwardly from each bar portion, the double shade roller mounting members of each end supporting member and of each bar portion, located adjacent thereto, being adapted to support a pair of shade rollers, and a double shade roller mounting member fixed to and extending inwardly from each of the intermediate supporting members, said inwardly extending double shade roller mount- References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 862,463 Fleming Aug. 6, 1907 1,519,548 Moore Dec. 16, 1924 2,049,471 Reilly Aug. 4, 1936 2,139,580 Draper et a1. Dec. 6, 1938 

